Cosmic rays and the atmospheric electric field : reconstruction and data analysis of radio emission from air showers at the Auger engineering radio array / vorgelegt von Jens Neuser aus Siegen. Wuppertal, Oktober 2015
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Cosmic Rays
- Extensive Air Showers
- Radio Emission
- Emission mechanisms
- Emission models
- Polarization
- Lateral distribution function and radio energy
- Atmospheric electric fields
- The Pierre Auger Observatory
- The Auger Engineering Radio Array
- Data analysis with the Offline Framework
- Structure
- The RdObserver application
- The RdSimulationObserver application
- Time-Dependent Detector Description
- Monitoring Web-Interface
- Automated production
- Improvement of the RdObserver
- Versions
- Purity Analysis
- Station and Event Selection
- Timing Corrections and pulse selection
- RFI Suppression
- Results from RdObserver v1r3
- Planned improvements
- Analysis Sidekicks
- Radio Emission in Strong Atmospheric Electric Fields
- Motivation
- Data Selection
- Field Analysis
- Energy Analysis
- Polarization Analysis
- Simulations with electric fields
- Summary
- Appendix
- RdObserver v1r3 ModuleSequence
- RdSimulationObserver v1r3 ModuleSequence
- Bibliography